| 释义 |
psephocracy rare.|sɪˈfɒkrəsɪ|
[f. prec. + -cracy.]
The form of government which results from election by ballot; representative government. So ˈpsephocrat, an elected ruler, or an adherent or supporter of government by election.
1966New Statesman 15 Apr. 531/1 How then did Britain..become a democracy?.. It never did... What we do have is representative government, or the rule of the ballot-box, or (in one word) psephocracy. Ibid., 531/2 Psephocracy on the British model has been extended, thanks to the advice of British psephocrats, to a couple of dozen nations. 1970Sci. Jrnl. Feb. 27/1 The present system [of government] is more of a leadership than a referred system—the so called ‘psephocracy’. |